I am Shocked − SHOCKED
I can’t possibly be the only one thoroughly unmoved by the sudden outrage over Harvey Weinstein. Can I?
It’s not like this is unprecedented or unpredictable. Hollywood has had a casting couch since before th...
A Historian Explains Why America Will Probably Fail
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The English author Paul Johnson opens his book A History of the American People (1997) by calling the United States “the greatest of all human adventures.”
While clearl...
7 Years Of Soft Sexism: Not ‘Me Too’, but ‘Me Maybe’?
There’s nothing like being a woman in Tech Support. As registers evolved from mechanical pushbutton machines to computers running Windows XP, loaded up with softwares, sales databases, and customer retention to...
Wait, You’re Telling Me Both Sides Are Hypocrites? Say It Isn’t So!
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We’ll defend free speech, yell the ever so present defenders of free speech. In the background plays God Bless America, a bald eagle sheds a tear and Kid Rock rips a gui...
Statistician Rethinks Gun Control After Digging into the Data
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Statistician Leah Libresco said she used to be for gun control. Then she looked at the data.
Writing at the Washington Post, the former newswriter for the data journa...
The Nobel Peace Prize Has Become a Participation Trophy
When I was younger, I once viewed Nobel Peace Prize laureates as beyond reproach, a secularized version of Saints in the Catholic religion. They were, it seemed, people who selflessly worked for peace in our ti...
Counter-Point: No, Trump Can’t Bomb North Korea Without Congress or the UN
Two months ago today, our sister site, Liberty Viral, published a piece entitled "To Bomb North Korea, Trump Doesn't Need Congress or the UN". It was written by Squiggly Line Guy, who I respect despite his name...
The Source of America’s Division: Not What We’ve Thought?
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Pundits today are fond of saying that Americans are divided because of a broad slate of reasons, race and gender being two primary ones.
But according to a new Pew surv...
Gun Control Advocates Use Trump Junior’s “Skittles” Logic
By Kitty Testa
Just a little over a year ago, in the heat of the 2016 election, which focused heavily on immigration, Donald Trump Junior used a strange analogy to hype the danger Syrian immigrants might pos...
In Defense of Self-Defense: Why the Left’s Message Doesn’t Add Up
By Jordan LaPorta
This morning, I, like every other American, awoke to the news of terror in Las Vegas. Those healing and the families of the victims should be our first and foremost concern, and I ...
